Science Books Discussion Group Book List
Please note that titles that do not have links are no longer owned by the
Chester County Library System and would have to be obtained via Interlibrary
loan.
2000
Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
by Michio Kaku
Genome: The Autobiography of A Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
When Things Start To Think
by Neil A. Gershenfeld
2001
Setting Limits: Medical Goals In An Aging Society With ‘A Response To My Critics’
by Daniel Callahan
Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
by Tom Shachtman
Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate
by S. Fred Singer
The Darwin Awards
by Wendy Northcutt
The Triple Helix
by Richard C. Lewontin
Bold Science: Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World
by Ted Anton
Sacred Depths of Nature
by Ursula Goodenough
Engines of Tomorrow: How the World’s Best Companies Are Using Their Research
Labs to Win the Future
by Robert Buderi
Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method
by Henry H. Bauer
Paradigms Regained: A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science
John L. Casti
Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War
by Judith Miller
2002
The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema
by Mark C. Glassy
The Science of Structures and Materials
by J. E. Gordon
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by Bryan Sykes
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
by Gary Zukav
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
Junk Science Judo
by Steven J. Milloy
Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare
by Paul A. Colinvaux
Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye Of The Beholder
by David Quammen
Terrors and Marvels
by Tom Shachtman
Matter of Degrees
by Gino Segre
Stuff: The Materials the World Is Made Of
by Ivan Amato
2003
Skeptical Environmentalist
by Bjorn Lomborg
Against The Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food
by Marc Lappe
Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics
by Michael Guillen
Hidden Attraction: The History and Mystery of Magnetism
by Gerrit L. Verschuur
Botany of Desire
by Michael Pollan
Measuring America
by Andro Linklater
A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
Fermat’s Enigma
by Simon Singh
Modern Nutritional Diseases
by Fred Ottoboni
Big Splat
by Dana Mackenzie
Calculated Risks
by Gerd Gigerenzer
2004
Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester
Intelligent Memory
by Barry Gordon
Uncle Tungsten
by Oliver Sacks
Nine Crazy Ideas in Science
by Robert Ehrlich
Life’s Matrix
by Philip Ball
Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
by William Northdurft
Adam’s Curse
by Bryan Sykes
Touchstone of Life
by Werner Loewenstein
Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs
by Joe Schwarcz
Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
by Paul Martin
Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C
by Steve Hickey
Prescription for Disaster
by Thomas Moore
2005
Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science
by Rene J. Dubos
Science and Music
by Sir James Jeans
The Prism and the Pendulum
by Robert P. Crease
Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
by Diarmuid Jeffreys
To Engineer is Human
by Henry Petroski
Molecules of Emotion
by Candace B. Pert
The Elegant Universe (DVD)
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton
A Symphony in the Brain
by Jim Robbins
Dark Life
by Michael Ray Taylor
Deep Simplicity
by John Gribbin
The Monster at Our Door
by Mike Davis
2006
Nanofuture: What’s Next for Nanotechnology
by J. Storrs Hall
Earthshaking Science
by Susan Elizabeth Hough
Creating the New World
by Theodore Rockwell
The Equations: Icons of Knowledge
by Sander Bais
Malignant Medical Myths
by Joel Kauffman
Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets
by Duncan Steel
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science
by Tom Bethell
Stem Cell Now
by Christopher Thomas Scott
The Two-Mile Time Machine
by Richard B. Alley
Social Intelligence
by Daniel Goleman
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
2007
The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
Windswept: the Story of Wind and Weather
by Marq de Villiers
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years
by S. Fred Singer
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
by Christopher C. Horner
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Let Them Eat Prozac
by David Healy
Twinkie, Deconstructed
by Steve Ettlinger
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors
by Nicholas Wade
1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Pox Americana
by Elizabeth A. Fenn
Off The Planet
by Jerry Linenger
2008
Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers
by Paul C. Pasles
Flight: My Life in Mission Control
by Chris Kraft
The Brain that Changes Itself
by Norman Doidge
Power to Save the World
by Gwyneth Cravens
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
by George Johnson
The Man Who Loved China
by Simon Winchester
The Intention Experiment
by Lynne McTaggart
The Battle of Britain
by Richard Hough
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
by Paul Hoffman
2009
The Code Book
by Simon Singh
Your Inner Fish
by Neil Shubin
Superorganism
by Bert Holldobler
The Mountains of Saint Francis
by Walter Alvarez
Blown to Bits
by Hal Abelson
The Drunkard’s Walk
by Leonard Mlodinow
Einstein’s Mistakes
by Hans Ohanian
Simplexity
by Jeffrey Kluger
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall
by Colin Ellard
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
by Richard Wrangham
A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
2010
Great Feuds in Mathematics
by Hal Hellman
The Black Swan
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming and the Missing Science
by Ian Plimer
The Great Influenza
by John M. Barry
Why Does E=MC2?
by Brian Cox
The Essential Engineer
by Henry Petroski
Genius in All of Us
by David Shenk
The Shallows
by Nicholas Carr
The Wave Watcher’s Companion
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
Language of Life
by Francis Collins
Proust and the Squid
by Maryanne Wolf
2011
Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
by William Rosen
Diabetes Rising
by Dan Hurley
Delusions of Gender
by Cordelia Fine
Hidden Reality
by Brian Greene
Napoleon’s Buttons
by Penny Le Couteur
Mystery of the Aleph
by Amir Aczel
Physics of the Future
by Michio Kaku
Moonwalking with Einstein
by Joshua Foer
Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson
2012
Overdiagnosed
by H. Gilbert Welch
The Wild Life of our Bodies
by Rob Dunn
Origins
by Annie M. Paul
The Great Global Warming Blunder
by Roy W. Spencer
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
by Lisa Randall
Thinking Fast & Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
DNA USA
by Bryan Sykes
Idea Factory
by Jon Gertner
Turing’s Cathedral
by George Dyson
Viral Storm
by Nathan Wolfe
Programming the Universe
by Seth Lloyd
2013
Science Set Free
by Rupert Sheldrake
Wizard of Menlo Park
by Randall Stross
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science & Sex
by Mary Roach
The Joy of X
by Steven Strogatz
The Universe Within
by Neil Shubin
The Signal & the Noise
by Nate Silver
Hallucinations
by Oliver Sacks
Zoobiquity
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
Who Owns the Future?
by Jaron Lanier
The Particle at the end of the Universe
by Sean Carroll
Frankenstein’s Cat
by Emily Anthes
2014
Brilliant Blunders
by Mario Livio
Countdown
by Alan Weisman
The Men Who United the States
by Simon Winchester
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
by Dave Goldberg
The Sports Gene
by David Epstein
We Are Our Brains
by D.F. Swaab
Life at the Speed of Light
by J. Craig Venter
Sixth Extinction
by Elizabeth Kolbert
A Troublesome Inheritance
by Nicholas Wade
Stuff Matters
by Mark Miodownik
Animal Madness
by Laurel Braitman
How Not to be Wrong
by Jordan Ellenberg
2015
Undeniable
by Bill Nye
This Changes Everything
by Naomi Klein
Social Physics
by Alex Pentland
Innovators
by Walter Isaacson
On Immunity
by Eula Biss
My Age of Anxiety
by Scott Stossel
Vitamania
by Catherine Price
Data and Goliath
by Bruce Schneier
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
Einstein’s Dice & Schrodinger’s Cat
by Paul Halpern
Proof: The Science of Booze
by Adam Rogers